lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (12/08/88)
Does anybody know if Borland is coming out with a Sprint update some time soon? I have had the program crash on me a couple times, once resulting in my files' names pointing to the wrong files in what was left of the swap file. The other time it kept crashing when I was trying to make a QuickCard until I reloaded the files from the distribution disks. And of course the screen updates leave MUCH to be desired. All this just from playing around with the program, not serious use yet. They better make the next update a free one. I just hope they don't abandon Sprint in their 'streamlining' move. L. Haskins -- lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-) (12/09/88)
+-In article <111700016@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:- | | Does anybody know if Borland is coming out with a Sprint update some | time soon? +---------- Sprint 1.01 is already shipping. It is interesting to note that 1.01 is specifically supported under DESQview 2.2.3, already... WITH high-intensity backgrounds under EGA... but that's another story. The major change is that now they have one central file, SP.COM, which overlays SPEDIT.EXE, SPFMT.EXE, and SPRECOVE.EXE. This clears up all the problems they were having with having things linking over each other. There are also lots of minor changes, to STANDARD.FMT, and some other piddling things. Apparently, they've also changed the way that editor macro overlay files are stored because you have to get rid of all your old user interfaces (and recompile any macros or new UI's you've written yourself, like me...). Oh, yeah, they also changed CORE.SPM so that Init doesn't initialize all those variables, which was apparently messing people up who wrote their own UI's and didn't initialize all the variables... Oh YEAH, and they fixed 16 flist "*.*"! (An undocumented option for flist that includes DIRECTORIES, which was brain-damaged in 1.00... it lost files and, well, just try it sometime.) +---------- | I have had the program crash on me a couple times, once | resulting in my files' names pointing to the wrong files in what was left | of the swap file. The other time it kept crashing when I was trying to | make a QuickCard until I reloaded the files from the distribution disks. +---------- As to the first problem; um, it's better than losing the files. I find I never have problems recovering the swap file if I just clear it out and delete it (and recreate it) every so often. I don't know about the quick card. If you have any re-creatable bugs, you should DEFINITELY report them. I report all the bugs I find, even though it doesn't seem like they get acted upon... +---------- | And of course the screen updates leave MUCH to be desired. All this | just from playing around with the program, not serious use yet. +---------- In what way? I remember the screen updates were pretty chunky on my brother's XT, but that thing always DID have a wierd graphics card... are you on an XT? One cause of this... Sprint is constantly polling the keyboard, to see if there are any keys pressed. If there are, it stops whatever it was doing and takes care of them. This is why it's faster than they eye can follow; it doesn't make you wait while it redraws the screen, it stops redrawing the screen and takes care of the key. SO... if you're hitting the "page down" key real fast, over and over, and you notice it isn't redrawing the whole screen, this is a very good reason why... I dunno, I never notice on my 386 :). +---------- | They better make the next update a free one. I just hope they don't | abandon Sprint in their 'streamlining' move. | | L. Haskins -- lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu +---------- Not at all. They DID lay off 4 of the 8 Sprint Tech Support crew at the time of their big layoff (and, one of those 4 left is the manager, who doesn't usually take calls), but they are far from giving up on Sprint. In fact, I am guessing they're sweating over it, adding Bitstream fonts to it, a la the PC Week article a couple of weeks ago, about Borland licencing said font technology... As for whether or not the update is free, I think it is. If it isn't, it certainly SHOULD be. Call Tech Support and find out. Oh, and; if you have Compu$erve, you should check out the CALC.SPM and INITSCRN.SPM macros they have available for downloading... I guarantee that they're real cool. 'Course, I'm biased, I wrote 'em... -- /|\ /|\ .. . . . . . . . . . . | |\| |\| .. . . . . . . . . . . |/|\|/|\|/|| _ _ _ _ |_| _ _ |_ -__ _ _ARPA: funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.EDU | |/| |/|L_ (_\( ( (_/ | |(_\_) (_ || )(_)_)UUCP: *!ucbvax!ucscb!funkstr \|/ \|/ larry / hastings _/ WORK: sun!acad!metaware!funkster MetaWare Incorporated Disclaimer: It was a bad day. "If any of your OSF force are caught or killed, the Secretary will deny any knowlege of your activities." --from the new Mission: Impractical